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The US cites the ‘wisdom’ of historical immigration policy. But nation states in the Americas have spent more time with open borders than closed

The mayor’s response to the snowstorm has been described as an early test for his version of “common good” governance.

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a shocking, innovative, and darkly comic film about the pressures of life under capitalism. It’s more proof that the Oldboy director is nothing less than a cinematic master.

Amidst the storm

An Endless Coverup (1986), Genocide’s the Real Crime (1996), Whites Kill, Blacks Do Time (1966), Andrew Jackson, Ahead of His Time (1834), How Did President Wilson Sleep? (1921), Wars Kill, But Mum’s the Word (1991), John Kennedy, Movie Fan (1961)

The latest ICE murder produces a unified Senate Democratic Caucus blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security until strict and enforceable limits are set.

Leaders of powerful institutions do have a choice. The price of allowing the preferences of any president to dictate the policies and practices of organizations that depend on freedom and autonomy is to destroy the legitimacy of those organizations.

The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.

Since Columbine, expectations for cops have been clear. But reality often hasn’t measured up.

Multiple weather factors have to come together to produce such a large and severe storm. How climate change might or might not play a role.